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They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about.
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High-visibility national press advertising will capitalise on the fantastic praise received on hardback publication and position this book as the unmissable paperback of 2008They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues.There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them.Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine.
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A first novel about a group of white-collar workers struggling with their lives, this received unprecedented coverage and universal acclaim on its hardback publication. Selected as a summer reading recommendation by The Sunday Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Observer, this edition has a witty and bold new jacket treatment. A major publicity campaign involving national press advertising, Facebook groups and MySpace competition and a podcast is planned. 'Very funny, intense and exhilarating' Times
Author Biography
Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author of Then We Came to the End (2007), which was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the highly acclaimed The Unnamed. In 2010 he was selected for the New Yorker's prestigious '20 under 40' list. In 2014 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in upstate New York.
Review
Outstanding, hugely satisfying, exceptionally well-executed ... An incisive, urgent, funny and snappily written novel Sunday Times Magazine As impressively confident as Donna Tartt's The Secret History and as technically dazzling as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections ... Exceptional, funny, radical Telegraph Brilliant, funny, stomach-turningly accurate Observer
Prizes
Winner of Richard & Judy Book Club: Summer Read 2008Short-listed for United States National Book Awards: Fiction 2007Short-listed for Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Awards - Fiction 2007
Review Text
Outstanding, hugely satisfying, exceptionally well-executed . . . An incisive, urgent, funny and snappily written novel
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'Outstanding, hugely satisfying, exceptionally well-executed
Details ISBN0141027630 Author Joshua Ferris Pages 400 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2008 ISBN-10 0141027630 ISBN-13 9780141027630 Format Paperback Publication Date 2008-01-04 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Subtitle a Novel Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.6 Media Book Edition 1st Short Title THEN WE CAME TO THE END Language English UK Release Date 2008-01-04 Alternative 9780141917627 Audience General NZ Release Date 2008-05-04 AU Release Date 2008-05-04 We've got this
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